warman

See also: Warman

English

Etymology

From war +‎ -man.

Noun

warman (plural warmen)

1. (archaic, rare) A warrior.
   • 1876, Grammar of the Fulde Language‎^[1], Church Missionary House, page 297:

     The warmen went to the other side of the brook Kubi; they stopped there to deliberate.

   • 1881, Bayard Taylor, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 147:

     Our entrance was attended with the usual ceremony, now familiar to the reader: the warmen danced, shot, and shouted, a rabble of adults, youths and boys crowded upon us, the fair sex lulliloo'd with vigor[.]

   • 1989, Richard La Plante, Tegné: Soul Warrior‎^[2], Tor, →ISBN, page 13:

     The Yusun Clan either fled or surrendered in the face of these huge-boned, bronzed, godlike Warmen.